Google invest 90000 USD in Drupal

Google announced that they will sponsor 18 scholarships for Drupal developer this summer in the program Google Summer of Code ™ (SoC). Google provides a scholarship of $ 5000 for each student developer, of which $ 4500 goes to the student and $ 500 goes to Drupal Association (or mentor students). It was accepted and approved 18 applications for various kinds of refinement for Drupal, which adds $ 90000 dollars in investments over a 3-month period, bringing the total investments made in Drupal through the Google SoC dostiget more than $ 450000.

List of students, their projects, and mentors are listed on the official site Drupal.org - Announcing Drupal's 2010 Summer of Code students. Congratulations to all successful applicants, and also thank the organizers of Drupal Summer of Code, Drupal mentors, and last but not least, Google.

Summer is a great start!